Chapter 18 Common Design Challenges
Me, I’m a creator
Thrill is to make it up
Santogold, “Creator”
Ubiquitous computing user experience design is a young field. Despite twenty years of history, there is little agreed-upon process, few standard components, and barely any agreement on where the boundaries of ubicomp lie — or even what to call it. Most designers will have to make it up on the fly and hope for the best. Nevertheless, not all is chaos. The seeds of a discipline have been planted, and some of the forest’s outline has emerged.
A number of ubiquitous computing researchers, designers, developers, and educators (listed below) contributed to this chapter by describing the challenges they regularly face. I organized these into five categories: ...
Get Smart Things now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
